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Whether you want to take on all the responsibility of contracting your home or simply want to intelligently communicate with your homebuilder, The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home can help you save 30% or more on the cost of home construction by teaching you the practical, day-to-day details of managing a construction project.
You'll learn the up-front essentials to getting your project off to a solid start. You'll get financial and legal details in language you can understand. Learn the ins and outs of selecting a lot, dealing with suppliers, labor and subcontractors, safety, inspections and saving money so you can manage with authority, confidence and efficiency.
You'll be walked through preconstruction, foundations, framing, roofing, plumbing, electrical, masonry, siding, insulation, drywall, trim, painting, cabinetry, countertops, flooring, tile and landscaping.
Also included is the most comprehensive building resources section ever compiled. The appendix includes schedules, checklists, order forms, control logs and contracts you can't be without.
At three twenty AM, marine geologist Carl Jameson is thrown overboard from a Honduran cargo ship, before he can warn anyone of an earth-shattering discovery. What is in the cargo that others want to keep secret? Why are entire crews of fishermen mysteriously disappearing off the Central American coast? What do the disappearances have to do with the extinction of the dinosaurs?
These and other questions will have to be answered by a most unlikely candidate; Dan Clifford, a prediction scientist on a scuba diving vacation. When he inadvertently stumbles onto the victim’s body, he teams up with Rachel Sullivan, a marine microbiologist and operator of the deep diving submersible SeaZee.
Their quest for answers sweeps them both into a vortex of undersea adventure, biological mystery, and political conspiracy that reaches from the Honduran coast to the U.S. Senate. Their discoveries carry them back to the origin of life on earth and to a frightening conclusion that threatens the very existence of humankind; a conclusion made all the more chilling by the story's basis on actual events occurring in the world today.